There has been uninterrupted interest in supercooled water ever since the pioneering
experiments of Speedy and Angell revealed sharp increases in this substance's response …

We present a review of experimental, theoretical, and molecular simulation studies of
confinement effects on freezing and melting. We consider both simple and more complex …

The deconfined quantum critical point (QCP), separating the Néel and valence bond solid
phases in a 2D antiferromagnet, was proposed as an example of (2+ 1) D criticality …

Liquid water's isothermal compressibility and isobaric heat capacity, and the magnitude of its
thermal expansion coefficient, increase sharply on cooling below the equilibrium freezing …

Melting in two spatial dimensions, as realized in thin films or at interfaces, represents one of
the most fascinating phase transitions in nature, but it remains poorly understood. Even for …

Relying on the recent proposed multicanonical algorithm, we present a numerical simulation
of the first-order phase transition in the 2D 10-state Potts model on lattices up to sizes 100× …

We carry out a completely first-principles study of the ferroelectric phase transitions in BaTiO
3. Our approach takes advantage of two features of these transitions: the structural changes …

We develop a first-principles scheme to study ferroelectric phase transitions for perovskite
compounds. We obtain an effective Hamiltonian which is fully specified by first-principles …

Liquid crystals are partially ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. The study
of these materials covers a wide area: chemical structure, physical properties and technical …

This review treats several pairing-related phenomena in nuclear systems, ranging from
superfluidity in neutron stars to the gradual breaking of pairs in finite nuclei. It focuses on the …